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IEEE P802.22 Wireless RANs
Text on Spectral Correlation Sensing – For Informative Annex on
Sensing Techniques
Date: 2007-06-14
Author(s):
Name
Address
Phone
email
Soo-Young Chang
Huawei Technologies
Davis, CA, U.S.
1-916 278 6568
sychang@ecs.csus.edu
Linjun Lv
Huawei Technologies
Shenzhen, China
86-755-28973119
lvlinjun@huawei.com
Zhou Wu
Huawei Technologies
Shenzhen, China
86-755-28979499
wuzhou@huawei.com
Mingwei Jie
Huawei Technologies
Shenzhen, China
86-755-28972660
jiemingwei@hauwei.com
Shanghai, China
86-21-68644808
zhangjianwei@huawei.com
Shenzhen, China
86-755-28973118
qlai@huawei.com
Shenzhen, China
86-755-28973121
wenjh@huawei.com
Jianwei Zhang
Lai Qian
Jianhuan Wen
Company
Huawei Technologies
Huawei Technologies
Huawei Technologies
Abstract
This document contains the text on the spectral correlation sensing schemes for the informative Annex on
sensing techniques.
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Spectral Correlation Sensing
1. Principle of Operation
In this sensing scheme, only spectral components from the received signals are used to extract information on incumbent
user signals. No time domain signal components are needed and no time domain analysis is executed for this type of
sensing. This makes the receiver less sensitive on other parameters used to design TV band tuners – for example, phase
noise, etc.
In WRAN systems, inherently frequency spectral components are available as a form of FFT outputs at the receivers. All
or part of these components can be utilized for this sensing and this fact makes implementation of this scheme simpler
with less cost. Time domain signals can be transformed into the frequency domain spectra as shown in Figure 1 using the
Fourier transform.
In this type of sensing, with one measurement for one symbol duration, all frequency components can be obtained. It
means that the whole frequency band can be covered for a period of one symbol duration. For better sensing
performance, the measured components will be averaged for more than one symbol duration. For that case, sensing can
take place for the duration of a few OFDM symbols.
Correlation detection described in this section is not energy detection which simply measures the amount of energy (or
power) of the received signal. Correlation detection measures the correlation between spectral signatures of the received
signals and pre-stored signature information on various types of incumbent user signals. Thus more accurate information
on target signals can be extracted at the receiver with relatively simple implementation. This spectral information for
various incumbent signal types is stored in the detector depicted in Figure 2.
T
F0
t
0
T0
f
0
Figure 1
F
Discrete Fourier transform
Sense
antenna
LPF
ADC
FFT
detector
LNA
cos2fpt
where fp: left edge freq. of
the channel
Figure 2
Sensing receiver structure
2. Description of Operation
a. Sensing for one TV channel band
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To use only spectral components – not time domain signal components – as described in the above, the received TV band
signals are Fourier transformed at the receiver for only one TV band by using FFTs. After wide band tuning and down
converting or down converting and low pass filtering at the receiver, this FFT transform is executed.
Parameters for one typical example for this application are as follows:
 BW=F=6 MHz for one band case in the United States
 Sampling interval T=1/B=1/6 us, sampling rate=BW=6 MHz
 Frequency resolution (or frequency separation) F0=3 KHz
 Time period T0=1/F0=1/3 ms
 Number of samples needed N0=T0/T= 2 KHz
 Needs 2K point FFTs
Sensing procedure for TV signals
Several to a large number of frequency components are taken in a TV channel band depending on the required sensing
accuracy. Refer to a section below on how these frequency components can be selected.
To compare values of these components with pre-stored information the following two methods are applied:
 Correlation calculation: to compare the shape of spectrum of the received signal with the well-known shapes of
possible incumbent signals,
 Calculate correlations with pre-stored values of spectral information for NTSC and DTV signals or other TV
signals
 If one of these correlation values is larger than predetermined values, the judgment is that NTSC or DTV or one
of other TV signal exists.
 Pilot detection: to check whether a pilot signal exists or not,
 Calculate the ratio of a pilot component to another component around the pilot after another component is picked
such that this ratio is maximized.
 For the example in the above, if F417/F1200 > thn, this signal is NTSC where thn is the predetermined threshold for
NTSC signals where Fn is the nth spectral component. If F103/F1200 > thd, this signal is DTV where thd is the
predetermined threshold for DTV signals.
Frequency component values or correlation values or ratios for several symbol periods can be averaged to have better
sensing results.
Sensing procedure for wireless microphone signals
Wireless microphone systems should not be operated on the same frequency channel band as a local TV station uses. It
means only open (unoccupied) frequencies should be used for microphones. Most microphone signals are FM modulated
with a bandwidth of around 200 KHz.
With these above assumptions, microphone signals can be detected using the following procedure by sensing the spectral
components using FFT devices:
 For the above example, for every 3 KHz in a 6 MHz band a spectral component is measured and compared with
other components.
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 If considerable components in a 200 KHz band exist, the judgment is that a wireless microphone is operated in that
band as follows:
 For the previous case, for example, if consecutive six components spaced equally in 200 KHz have considerable
amount of energy, it is judged that a microphone signal is detected.
 Or if more correlation with stored information on various microphone signal spectral signatures (mainly FM
signatures) than predetermined value exists, a wireless microphone is operated in that band using correlation
calculation.
b. Sensing for multiple TV channel band
The above method for one TV channel band can also be applied extensively for multiple TV channel band. Multiple
channel band which has k TV channels as shown in Figure 3 is divided into k*l sub-bands where each TV channel is
divided into l sub-bands. Each sub-band has one frequency spectral component. Only difference between one TV channel
band case and multiple TV channel case is that for multiple TV channel band case some of every l components are used
to compare with the pre-stored information. To compare the spectral components with the pre-stored information, the
above comparison methods are applied.
subband 0
subband 1
subband 2
subband l-1
f
Selected bands
Band 0
WRAN/incumbent WRAN
Figure 3
Band 1
Band k-1
Incumbent user
WRAN
Multiple TV channel band by selecting k consecutive channel band out of n channels
3. One Example
One spectral correlation example is as shown in Figure 4. In this example for NTSC signals, 8 uniformly spaced
frequency components are chosen to compare the components.
Figure 4
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4. Selection of Frequency Components: Emphasizing near Parts with Abrupt Changes
How to pick frequency components and how many components to be picked to compare them with pre-stored
information are important factors to improve the performance. The simplest way is to pick the components in a uniformly
spaced manner.
To have better performance for this sensing scheme, these components do not need to be selected evenly with equal
spacing. Some parts of this spectrum have flat characteristics while some other parts have abrupt changes in spectral
amplitudes especially near pilot components. For the parts with abrupt changes, more components can be selected while
less components are picked for the flat parts. Through this emphasizing, higher correlation can be obtained.
If more components are used for correlation calculation, better performance can be achieved, entailing higher
complexity. However, relatively simple calculations can be needed for this comparison. If m components are used, only
m multiplications need to be executed.
5. Typical Receiver Structure
A typical receiver structure is shown in Figure 5. The WRAN OFDM receiving structure can be used for this sensing by
adding one detector block. This detector calculates correlations or averages of the received signal amplitudes, or
compares the signal amplitude of pilot signal components with adjacent components as described in the above. The
information on incumbent user signals is stored in this block.
At the receiver, data receiving for WRAN services and incumbent signal sensing are executed simultaneously without
having separate receiving and processing branches.
Using the sensing method for multiple TV channels case, relatively coarse sensing can be done for a wider band by
covering multiple TV channels simultaneously. If more precise sensing is needed, sensing for single TV channel may be
applied with an additional signal processing block. For this case, one more ADC and FFT are added to this structure.
receive
antenna
demod
LPF
LNA
Figure 5
ADC
cos2fpt
where fp: left edge freq. of the
channel (or whole target band)
FFT
detector
Typical sensing receiver structure by mainly using OFDM receiver blocks
5. Required SNRs
To provide a brief glimpse for the performance, the required SNR values are given in Table 1 for a probability of false
alarm of 0.1 to achieve probabilities of detection of 0.9 and 0.1 for real DTV signals. These numbers are obtained for
three cases of sensing times and numbers of frequency components for correlation calculation as shown in the table.
Sensing time is a multiple of one OFDM symbol duration of 1/3 ms while numbers of components are at most 200 points
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which means only at most 200 multiplications are needed for the calculations. The required SNRs vary as the noise
uncertainty changes. The simulation results show that there is 4 dB degradation on SNRs for the noise uncertainty of 1
dB.
Sensing time, number of
components for calculation
Required SNR(dB),
Prob. of detection of 0.9
Required SNR(dB),
Prob. of detection of 0.99
1/3 ms, 50 components
2 ms, 100 components
10 ms, 200 components
-7
- 12
- 29
- 3.5
-8
- 15.5
Table 1: Required SNRs vs Sensing Time/Number of componens for correlation calculation
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